Aug. 10, 2014
1:12 p.m.
On 8/10/2014 1:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Actually ... if I were a fan of the "".join() idiom, I'd seriously propose 0.sum(numeric_iterable) as the RightThang{tm]. Then we could deprecate "".join(string_iterable) in favor of "".sum(string_iterable) (with the same efficient semantics). Actually, there is no need to wait for 0.sum() to propose "".sum... but it is only a spelling change, so no real benefit.
Thinking about this more, maybe it should be a class function, so that it wouldn't require an instance: str.sum( iterable_containing_strings ) [ or str.join( iterable_containing_strings ) ]